Paper chase

PAPER is important, but so are forests. The proposal of the ministry for environment and forests to allow the paper industry to establish …

Bamboo rising

Five years after it was implemented, the Forest Rights Act finally takes root. Communities across the country rush to claim rights over forests …

On paper

The Green Rating Project (GRP) of the Centre for Science and Environment was conceived as a means to track the environmental performance of India'…

Enter -The green rating project

Indian industry is huge. But most environmentalists believe it has done little to reduce pollution, which will only rise as the economy grows. …

Private affairs

The invitation was innocuous. The Confederation of Indian Industry (cii) -- the grouping of the large and most powerful industries -- was …

United Colours of Industry

Of all dyes produced across the world, 11 per cent goes out as effluents. 2 per cent from manufacturing and as much as 9 per cent from colouring. …

A reprieve for the paper industry

Jute fibre, which could provide a solution to the increasing crisis in procuring wood pulp, could be science's gift to the paper industry.

New role for earthworms as sewage cleaners

A Pune-based research institute has developed a process that employs earthworms to remove impurities from waste water.

Is paper the new plastic? 

The processing phase of virgin as well as recycled paper is highly water and energy-intensive

Waste wizards

Entrepreneurs experiment with poop and pomace to make paper, and provide an opportunity for reducing burden on forests, landfills

Betrayal via bamboo

Largest paper manufacturer is using most of the bamboo in Maharashtra, leaving little for residents

Peatlands of Indonesia: in conversation with Myrna A Safitri

Indonesian peatlands are being burnt for palm oil and paper industries. Last year at the COP 21 in Paris though, Indonesian President Widodo …

Forest to farms

India's paper industry now sources more wood from farmers. Why does it still demand forestland?

If you want to read a book

...the near universal necessity of being the owner of a book to read it needs immediate and drastic revision

Don’t say bamboo

Aparna Pallavi travels to Gadchiroli district to find out why villages relinquished forest rights

Genetically engineered trees can clean up paper industry

With the application of the new technique, residue from trees can also be used in making adhesives, carbon fibers and paint additives

Sensing pressure using paper

This sensor is made of plain and corrugated cellulose papers coated with the chemical tin-monosulfide

Moneyspinning "cashcows"

Initially born as the good samaritan environmentalist's brainchild, recycling now smacks of a lot of hard cash

Writing off the world's forests

As the global demand for paper rockets, forests in the Asia-Pacific are being targeted for paper plantations

Paper cups as bad as plastic ones for environment: Research

Bioplastic coating on paper packaging does not degrade effectively; contains at least as many chemicals as conventional plastic

Crank it up

Sugar mills in India are doubling up as power generators by burning crushed sugarcane or bagasse. But with the price of bagasse rising, their …

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

Fire load in modern buildings 3 times greater than in 1990s: study

IIT-Gandhinagar researchers found that average fire load energy density was three times the average found during a study done conducted 20 years …

Papermaking at your doorstep

Although papermaking has traditionally been located in urban settings, technological innovations brought about by an NGO brings a new trade to …

Bacteria from rotten pomegranade can help produce cellulose

Bacterial strain from rotten pomegranate promises to help produce bacterial cellulose not just on a large scale but 4 times cheaper than made …